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The Role of Social Media in the Instructional Design Process for Learning and Development Programs

Agenda
1. What is social media?
2. Why social media in training?
3. Which tool and choosing which one to use and when?
4. Getting started with social media
5. Disadvantages or issues?
6. What is social learning?
7. What’s the difference between regular/traditional/formal and social learning?
8. What does social learning look like?
9. Social learning: “how to do things” versus “how to get things done”
10. What’s the future?

13.
What is Social Media?What is Social Media?
Definition?
◦ Content Produced by the Public
◦ Tools used to get Content out
What’s the difference between this media
and media 10 years ago?
•Static
•Not Interactive
V.S
.
•Changing/Sharing
•Collaborative

15.
Why Social Media in Training?Why Social Media in Training?
What can it do?
◦ Dissolves the barrier between the learners and
the instructor
◦ Continuing conversations
◦ Goes beyond the classroom
◦ Supports communities of learners
◦ Meet learners where they are
◦ Can help learners be aware of their own learning
process
◦ Additional support for new learning
◦ Helps the training department in informal
learning

16.
WHICHWHICH TOOLTOOL ANDAND
CHOOSING WHICH ONECHOOSING WHICH ONE
TO USE ANDTO USE AND WHENWHEN??

17.
Which Tool and Choosing whichWhich Tool and Choosing which
One to Use and When?One to Use and When?
Microblogging
Communities
Collaborative Editing
Journaling
Other tools?
When to use them?
◦ Fit Instructional Goals
◦ Know your Audience

19.
Getting Started with Social MediaGetting Started with Social Media
See handout…
Main points?
◦ Lots of facilitation from the trainer
◦ Making learners work together
◦ Provide practice opportunities
◦ Make it painless and positive for them
◦ Walk the talk

32.
Social Learning:Social Learning: “how to do things”“how to do things”
VersusVersus “how to get things done”“how to get things done”
Formal training = ?
◦ “How to do things”
In between formal training = ?
◦ How to get things done”

34.
What’s The Future?What’s The Future?
Technologies changing
Use same skills with new tools
Trainers need to learn how to get things
done to relate to employees
Shorter formal events, spaced further
apart
More involvement of trainers in between
formal events